Software Python Engineer (Billing)

Gcore is hiring a Software Engineer for its Billing Team to maintain and support the Billing Engine, a system central to financial transactions and global service delivery. The role focuses on developing reliable backend features and contributing to API, architecture, and delivery improvements.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain efficient back-end features in Python together with a production team
• Improve applications performance and reliability
• Define REST APIs and integrate them into our solutions
• Play a role in architectural and design decisions, building toward an efficient distributed application and services architecture, and improving delivery pipelines and processes

Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of software development principles and a thorough understanding of the entire software development lifecycle
• Expertise in Python programming and significant experience with the Django framework
• Extensive experience working with relational databases, particularly Postgres, writing, analyzing, and optimizing SQL queries
• Experience with message brokers (RabbitMQ) and asynchronous task queues (Celery)
• Proficiency in creating and consuming APIs
• Understanding of modern CI/CD practices, observability tooling and basic DevOps principles
• Verbal and written English communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate remotely with a globally distributed international team
• Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration with Kubernetes
• Strong grasp of software engineering best practices, including Agile and test-driven development
• Knowledge of additional backend technologies and frameworks
• Experience with system monitoring tools and performance optimization techniques
• A proactive mindset towards improving and scaling a complex system
• Prior experience with billing or payment systems